Rustam Minnikhanov meets with Prime Minister of Luxembourg
27 September 2012, Thursday
Official meeting between President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and Prime Minister of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Jean-Claude Juncker was held at the Kazan Kremlin within the official visit of the Luxembourg delegation to Russian Federation.
Prime Minister of Luxembourg thanked the Tatarstan President for warm reception in Kazan.
“I have read a lot about your beautiful city, and I wanted to see it with my own eyes. Here the past is consistent with the present making a sound foundation for the future,” Jean-Claude Juncker said.
The Tatarstan President said that Prime Minister of Luxembourg set ambitious tasks for developing cooperation. “We should demonstrate good results. We have held a number of meetings and the visit of a large delegation of Luxembourg businessmen to Tatarstan is being planned,” Rustam Minnikhanov said.
Head of republic thanked Jean-Claude Juncker for visiting Kazan.
Rustam Minnikhanov believes that the present visit of Prime Minister of Luxembourg to Russia will consolidate relationships between the two countries.
“We should expand our relationships. Tatarstan and Luxembourg have great potential for interaction in various spheres. Our Government and Luxembourg leadership should create all conditions for developing business contacts,” President of Tatarstan said.
Jean-Claude Juncker believes that Luxembourg companies will make a considerable contribution to Tatarstan’s development.
On 9 May Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin took part in a ceremony of laying flowers to the monument “The victorious soldier” dedicated to the celebrations of the Day of Victory in the Great Patriotic War (WW II) 1941-1945 and held at Arsk cemetery in Kazan.
On 8 May, speaking at a meeting held by the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov in the Government House of the republic with participation of the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and the regional Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin, the Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector of the republic Marat Ayzatullin reported that capital overhaul of social facilities is in full swing in the republic with 170 educational facilities having been included into regional and federal programmes.
On 4 May at a briefing held in the Tatarstan Government House it was told that currently there are 92 combat veterans, the last witnesses of the Great Patriotic War (WW II) of 1941-1945, living in the republic. The briefing also informed about veterans’ support measures and how the republic is planning to celebrate the Victory Day on 9 May.
The Deputy Prime Minister of the republic Leyla Fazleeva told that names of 353 Heroes of the Soviet Union from Tatarstan “ are immortalized in street names, on memorials, in monuments and squares and, of course, in our memory”. “The Victory Day is the day of memory, mourning and joy. It is the event which today should be clearly understandable to all young people and younger generation of Tatarstan,” she said.
On 24 April, upon his arrival to the Kazan International Airport, the Defense Minister of China Dong Jun was welcomed by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin, representatives of the General Consulate of China in Kazan and other officials